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Feb. 11, 2015 — Growing global trade is critically important for providing food when and where it's needed -- but it makes it harder to link the benefits of food and the environmental burden of its production. A new ... full story

Feb. 10, 2015 — Every year, around 45,000 people take their own lives because they are out of work or someone close to them is affected by unemployment, as a new study reveals. It includes data of 63 countries and ... full story

Feb. 9, 2015 — Climate change will lead to water scarcity in large parts of Africa. But there is hope – on African rooftops. Researchers in Norway are currently involved in the development of better water systems ... full story

Jan. 27, 2015 — Ecologists have found the conservation of aquatic ecosystems in Canada has not kept pace with the country's changing landscape, and a prioritization of protection is needed. This new assessment of ... full story

Jan. 20, 2015 — A new study calls for a new global standard for improvements in household drinking water and sanitation access. The study highlights that current benchmarks for access, established by the WHO/UNICEF ... full story

Jan. 14, 2015 — Landscape ecologists and plant ecologists analyzed the production and extraction rates of 27 global renewable and non-renewable resources together with economists and sustainability scholars. They ... full story

Jan. 12, 2015 — Future global wheat harvest is likely to be reduced by six per cent per each degree Celsius of local temperature increase if no adaptation takes place. Worldwide this would correspond to 42 million ... full story

Dec. 29, 2014 — Difficulty paying for food and medications appears to be associated with poor diabetes control among patients in a study that examined the impact of economic insecurity on managing the disease and ... full story

Dec. 3, 2014 — Individuals conceived in the severe Dutch Famine may have adjusted to this horrendous period of World War II by making adaptations to how active their DNA is. Genes involved in growth and development ... full story

Nov. 13, 2014 — Beyond deaths, injuries, and displacements, the ongoing Syrian war is causing growing infectious disease epidemics. A short review reports on some of the epidemics spreading among vulnerable ... full story

US Urges Developing Nations to Do More to Tackle Climate Change

AFP (Dec. 12, 2014) — The United States urges developing countries to ease objections to a world deal on climate change as deadlines loom at a 12-day UN meeting in Lima. Duration: 00:54
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France: Pacific Nations Need Help to Combat Rising Seawaters

AFP (Nov. 17, 2014) — France on Monday called for financial aid specifically for Pacific nations at risk from climate change and rising seawaters, as President Francois Hollande visits the French overseas territory of New Caledonia. Duration: 01:33
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Feb. 26, 2015 — Violence during the civil war in Guatemala from 1960 to 1996 resulted in the development of significant mental health problems and conditions for the county’s people, according to a new ... full story

Feb. 26, 2015 — Even seemingly intractable problems such as the antibiotic crisis and the obesity epidemic could be resolved by treating human health and society as an integral part of an ecosystem, researchers say. ... full story

Feb. 11, 2015 — Growing global trade is critically important for providing food when and where it's needed -- but it makes it harder to link the benefits of food and the environmental burden of its production. ... full story

Feb. 10, 2015 — Every year, around 45,000 people take their own lives because they are out of work or someone close to them is affected by unemployment, as a new study reveals. It includes data of 63 countries and ... full story

Feb. 9, 2015 — Climate change will lead to water scarcity in large parts of Africa. But there is hope – on African rooftops. Researchers in Norway are currently involved in the development of better water systems ... full story

Feb. 5, 2015 — Researchers examined social networks in the late pre-Hispanic Southwest and found that communities that were more connected with their neighbors had a better chance of being able to successfully ... full story

Feb. 3, 2015 — Food insecurity creates a host of unhealthy consequences. The roads leading there can be very different. A new study examined four risk factors for families that can lead to varying degrees of ... full story

Feb. 2, 2015 — Alarming evidence of an under-reported wild-meat crisis in the heart of Amazonia has been uncovered by researchers who interviewed households in two Brazilian 'prefrontier' cities -- cities ... full story

Jan. 29, 2015 — It was Christmas Eve, but the streets of Freetown – the capital of Sierra Leone – were eerily silent. Families and friends did not meet for the traditional dinner to feast on Jollof Rice, a ... full story

Jan. 28, 2015 — Although you might expect that providing aid to impoverished villages in the Philippines could only bring them relief, a study found that the villages that qualified for some forms of aid actually ... full story

Jan. 27, 2015 — Ecologists have found the conservation of aquatic ecosystems in Canada has not kept pace with the country's changing landscape, and a prioritization of protection is needed. This new assessment ... full story

Jan. 27, 2015 — A design engineering student's final year project aims to help developing countries make their own disability aids using modular components. The modular kit of interchangeable mobility aid parts ... full story

Jan. 21, 2015 — More than 2.1 billion people worldwide are now overweight or obese and at risk for major chronic diseases such as Type 2 diabetes and heart problems. But new types of evidence-based interventions, ... full story

Jan. 20, 2015 — A new study calls for a new global standard for improvements in household drinking water and sanitation access. The study highlights that current benchmarks for access, established by the WHO/UNICEF ... full story

Jan. 14, 2015 — Landscape ecologists and plant ecologists analyzed the production and extraction rates of 27 global renewable and non-renewable resources together with economists and sustainability scholars. They ... full story

Jan. 14, 2015 — The aim of the 50 Breakthroughs study is to give philanthropies, aid agencies, businesses, and technologists a blueprint for where to invest their resources to achieve the highest ... full story

Jan. 12, 2015 — The earthquake that rocked Haiti on 12 January 2010 was one of the four greatest killers recorded worldwide since 1990. It smacked headlong into the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince, home to over ... full story

Jan. 12, 2015 — Future global wheat harvest is likely to be reduced by six per cent per each degree Celsius of local temperature increase if no adaptation takes place. Worldwide this would correspond to 42 million ... full story

Jan. 6, 2015 — While several physician groups have opposed the perceived replacement of physicians with nurse practitioners as primary care clinicians, a recent survey finds that more physicians would recommend ... full story

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